Battered women tell us time and time again that they cannot become safe from domestic abuse unless they can financially support themselves and their children.
Caring Unlimited has developed a new women’s economic development initiative as part of our Transitional Services Program in order to respond to requests from the people we serve.

The initiative includes a number of opportunities for women to get the information and learn the skills they need in order to build economically secure lives. Program components include:

Information Sessions—2-hour sessions about available resources and how to access them

Personal Economic Planning (PEP) Course—a 12-hour course designed to assist women in creating their own individualized action plan to achieve economic security

Bridge to Economic Self-Determination (Diffendoofer School)—a 96 hour experiential education course that uses “challenge-by-choice” activities to help participants (re)connect with their inherent strengths, necessary for them to achieve their hopes, goals and dreams for themselves and their kids. This course was affectionately renamed “Diffendoofer School” by the first participants after a Dr. Seuss story about an alternative school that is read early in the course. “I discovered who I am;” “I remembered what I liked;” “I have stuff I can give to the world!“ “I am alive! I will never be the way I was again;” are some of the comments made by program participants after completing Diffendoofer School at Caring Unlimited.
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For More Information Contact:
Caring Unlimited’s Transitional Services Program
(207) 490-3227 x112
cuthouse@gwi.net